Electrically tunable giant Nernst effect in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures

G Pasquale, Z Sun, G Migliato Marega… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The Nernst effect, a transverse thermoelectric phenomenon, has attracted significant
attention for its potential in energy conversion, thermoelectrics and spintronics. However …

Quantum computing and chemistry

JD Weidman, M Sajjan, C Mikolas, ZJ Stewart… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2024 - cell.com
As the year-to-year gains in speeds of classical computers continue to taper off,
computational chemists are increasingly examining quantum computing as a possible route …

Dynamical heat engines with non-Markovian reservoirs

F Cavaliere, M Carrega, G De Filippis, V Cataudella… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We discuss whether, and under which conditions, it is possible to realize a heat engine
simply by dynamically modulating the couplings between the quantum working medium and …

Darlington pair of quantum thermal transistors

RT Wijesekara, SD Gunapala, M Premaratne - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Recent progress in manipulating individual quantum systems has led to the development of
quantum thermal transistors, which control the thermal conductivity between two of its …

Thermodynamics of optical Bloch equations

C Elouard, D Herrera-Martí, M Esposito… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical Bloch equations (OBE) describe the coherent exchange of energy between a
quantum bit (qubit) and a quasi-resonant driving field in the presence of a thermal bath …

Towards quantum thermal multi-transistor systems: Energy divider formalism

RT Wijesekara, SD Gunapala, M Premaratne - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
A quantum thermal transistor controls the flow of thermal energy through two of its terminals
in response to an external input signal on its third terminal. In recent years, several …

Quantum heat valve and entanglement in superconducting LC resonators

Y Liu, Y Yang, T Ma, C Yu - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum superconducting circuit with flexible coupler has been a powerful platform for
designing quantum thermal machines. In this Letter, we employ the tunable coupling of two …

Topological information device operating at the Landauer limit

AM Bozkurt, A Brinkman, İ Adagideli - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We propose and theoretically investigate a novel Maxwell's demon implementation based
on the spin-momentum locking property of topological matter. We use nuclear spins as a …

Continuous-variable electromechanical quantum thermal transistors

W Nie, J Xu, H Zhan, A Chen, Y Lan - New Journal of Physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a scheme to realize quantum thermal transistor effects in a continuous-variable
electromechanical system including two microwave cavities and one mechanical oscillator …

Quantum circuit refrigerator based on quantum dots coupled to normal-metal and superconducting electrodes

SM Tabatabaei, N Jahangiri - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In quantum dot junctions capacitively coupled to a resonator, electron tunneling through the
quantum dot can be used to transfer heat between different parts of the system. This …